Detonator 5.30 - still odd but found out something new

[Kirin]

Heya Aces,

as you may recall I had some problems running the Detonator 5.22 drivers on my machine.

Now, since 5.30 driveres are out I thought, hey, maybe they work now! Thought wrong excact the same symptoms:

While booting the system stops loading Windows for 20 min... then starts again and finishes beautifully... FSAA works great and FR is acceptable.

What I did not notice before is the following: while scanning through Windows to find the problem I noticed that my IDE harddrives run in ms-dos compatibility mode (found that under "systemsteuerung/system/leistungsmerkmal" (sorry I do not know the english equivalent)... I find this very odd since I do not load anything in autoexec.bat or config.sys (well SB Live loads something and I cannot disable it... even deleting those files is futile). I still think that some IRQ conflict may be the problem. But Windows does not show any conflicts. My primary drives are SCSI, plus a IDE drive (this the one that uses compatibility mode)

The wierdest thing still is that Windows resumes loading after TWENTY MINUTES!!!

system specs:

PIII500
128MB RAM
Gigabyte 6BXS MB
ELSA ERAZOR X (GeForce256)
2 IBM SCSI Harddrives
1 IDE HARDDRIVE
Soundblaster Live!
ELSA Microlink USB ISDN
Saitek X36 USB
Windows98

???

[LJK_KämpferAs]

I have found the Det 5.xx to cause alot of problems(no 20 minute loads tho   ) with either of my vid cards (GeForce256 and TNT2 Pro). Mostly the problems are with another game (Rogue Spear) but if I use the Det 3.xx (currently 3.90) all runs sweet. I have tested this on some different setups.

Piii 450SECC2/550FC/600FC
Microstar MS-6147/6163/6163P/6163BO(BX master)
256mb ram
Microstar MS-8806 (TNT2)/Creative GeForce256
Creative Sound Blaster Live Value/Platinum
Lots of different HDD's


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